It takes one year for our little
earth to spin round the sun. And during that year it turns three
hundred and sixty-five times on its own axis. While the entire
body of our earth flies through space, accompanying the sun on
its journey, the northern extremity of our planet has a separate
circular motion of its own. This circular motion takes
twenty-seven thousand years to complete one circle, and as it
moves in this inconceivably slow journey our pole selects for us
and points out the various suns which in turn we call the North
Star.
We have written thus much to fix the attention of readers on the
question of time. Now, how does it affect you? Time represents
your only chance, your only wealth, your only possibility for
achieving anything.
The man who lasts fifty years lives about four hundred and
thirty-eight thousand hours. Sleep takes at least one-third, or
one hundred and forty-six thousand hours. The processes of
eating, washing, dressing, getting up and going to bed take up at
least three hours per day, or fifty-four thousand seven hundred
and fifty hours.
In addition to all this TIME cut out of our lives there is the
time devoted to amusement, the time devoted to idle dreaming--and
yet millions of people are wondering how they can "PASS THE
TIME.
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